If you get someone who's focused on the frustrations primarily and doesn't really take accountability in terms of what they could do differently, try to find other areas to probe. Do you think a mediocre engineer can be a world-class top 1% engineering manager? "You need to be a very good engineer, but you also need to be very good at reading people," she says.
Our guest today is Marcel Weekes, VP of Product Engineering at Figma and former VP of Engineering at Slack.
In today’s conversation, he unpacks why most startups get it wrong when they uplevel someone from IC engineer to eng manager and unfurls what stellar engineering management looks like at high-growth companies, including:
- Setting appropriate expectations and goals
- Turbocharging the team’s effectiveness
- Delivering high-impact feedback
- Going from a peer to a manager
- What leaders risk when they drag their heels on managing out low-performers
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